Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed include such Bobby Kennedy stalwarts as William F. Haddad and Robert Clampitt. Moreover, in his victory speech High reflected a definite Kennedy influence. His gestures and even his words ("Let us begin") were very much J.F.K. as he promised to work for such programs as state tax reform and business expansion...
Games as miniature models of conflict among men are as old as chess and as new as the "wars" fought by scholars in such think factories as the Rand Corp. Carried by a tide of curriculum reform, games are now moving into colleges and grade schools, mainly to help students get an inside feel of social and political conflict...
...hobby. Born in Beloit, Kans., he is an elder of Wichita's First Presbyterian Church, has served on major Presbyterian committees since 1958. Thompson has a long record of community involvement in Wichita. He is chairman of the Civic Music Association, and helped to organize a local political reform movement (he is a registered Democrat...
Died. Dan Moody, 72, Governor of Texas from 1927 to 1931 who at 33, as a reform-minded state attorney general, defeated Incumbent Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, a housewife like Lurleen Wallace merely fronting for her husband, impeached Governor James Ferguson, after which Moody served two terms cleaning up the mess in the Statehouse and starting construction of Texas' top-rated highway system, then retired to a highly successful law practice; of heart disease; in Austin...
Polite critics of the State Department say that the U.S. too often prefers "order to reform" in Latin America. This is too generous. In the Dominican Republic at least, the U.S. has been, and continues to be, willing to foresake everything even order, to avoid reform. A Balaguer victory would mean chaos. The April revolution would recommence in Santo Domingo, and perhaps elsewhere. The democratic parties--the PRD and the PRSC--would be thrown into turmoil by an agony of conscience. What has all this to do with "order...